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Jail for banned driver Mohammed Shoaib, 23, of Manningham, who attacked warden in parking ticket row in North Parade, Bradford

Jail for banned driver Mohammed Shoaib, 23, of Manningham, who attacked warden in parking ticket row in North Parade, Bradford

Jail for banned driver Mohammed Shoaib, 23, of Manningham, who attacked warden in parking ticket row in North Parade, Bradford

COUNCIL chiefs have warned anyone attacking or abusing its wardens will face the courts after a banned driver was jailed for trying to punch one of them over a parking ticket.

Mohammed Shoaib, 23, swung his fist at Council employee John Demaine and then drove off at speed, almost hitting a police horse and pedestrian, during the incident on January 21, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Shoaib had been banned from the roads last March over a previous incident of dangerous driving, but after a row at home he stormed out of the house and took his brother’s Toyota vehicle to go for a haircut.

But half an hour before the kick-off in Bradford City’s game against Millwall in January, Mr Demaine tried to print out a parking ticket for the vehicle which had been parked in North Parade.

A judge at Bradford Crown Court was shown footage taken by an on-looker of Shoaib behaving aggressively and eventually throwing a punch which missed the warden.

Another piece of CCTV footage also showed Shoaib driving off and narrowly missing a police officer on horseback and a male pedestrian.

After the case, Councillor Abdul Jabar, Bradford Council’s executive member for neighbourhoods and community Safety, said: “We will not tolerate anyone attacking or behaving aggressively towards our Council wardens as they go about their professional duties.